Cultural Finance One-Day Conference

28 February 2020

Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Venue: Arts Two, Senior Common Room

An interdisciplinary conference organised by the School of Economics and Finance and the Department of Comparative Literature. The one-day conference is on Cultural Finance, a new and emerging area of economics that explores how cultural norms interact with financial decision making. The conference is the first of its kind in the UK and features papers by both literary critics and economists.

Keynote Economics Speaker:

Professor Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London) - "The Intangible Economy"

Presenters:

• Daniel Beunza (Cass Business School)
• Jesal Sheth (Banking Standards Board)

 

Keynote Literature Speaker: 

Professor Peter Hitchcock (CUNY) - "How to Read Fictitious (and Other Keywords)"

Presenters:

• Paul Crosthwaite (Edinburgh)
• Alasdair King (QMUL)
• Peter Knight (Manchester)

 

Register for free on Eventbrite.

 

Organisers: 

• Dr Ben Holgate, Department of Comparative Literature
• Professor Jason Sturgess, Professor of Economics and Finance

Supported by the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences